PSC invites public to an evening with Scott Dikkers, creator of The Onion News Network

Published: 01-04-2019

Pensacola State College presents an evening with Scott Dikkers, creator of The Onion News Network, set for 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 24, in the Jean and Paul Amos Performance Studio on the Pensacola campus.

Tickets are $11 for adults; $9, seniors, non-PSC students and children; $7, PSC Seniors Club members, PSC faculty and staff; and free for PSC students with current ID.

A comedy writer, speaker and entrepreneur, Dikkers is the founding and longest serving editor-in-chief of The Onion. He co-wrote and edited the New York Times bestselling books “Our Dumb World” and “Our Dumb Century,” and currently hosts “The Comedy Insider Podcast.”

Sharing the hilarious and unlikely story of how he and a few friends started a fake newspaper that grew to be one of the world’s most popular online humor sites, Dikkers imparts the inspirational lessons he has learned about pursuing dreams and taking creative risks.

Tickets go on sale Jan. 7 and can be purchased at www.pensacolastate.edu/lyceum or at the Lyceum Box Office, Building 8, Room 861, from 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Tickets also are available at the door, one hour before the performance.

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The “Beauty in Use: Celebrating Japanese Cultural Traditions” exhibition will be on display Jan. 22 through June 27 in Pensacola State College’s Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts.
The exhibit

Event Details

The “Beauty in Use: Celebrating Japanese Cultural Traditions” exhibition will be on display Jan. 22 through June 27 in Pensacola State College’s Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts.

The exhibit will feature the works of two artists from Japan’s Wakayama Prefecture ─ Master Potter Masayoshi Shimizi’s traditional handmade pottery and Taisan Tanaka’s contemporary calligraphy.

An opening reception is set for 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 31, in the Lamar Studio Switzer Center’s Charles W. Lamar Studio. Located in Building 15 at the corner of Ninth Avenue and Airport Boulevard, the reception will include live calligraphy demonstrations and the Artist Talks that begin at 6:30 p.m.

Admission is free and open to the public. Gallery are 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 8 a.m.-4 p.m. on Friday. Tours are available with prior arrangements.

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Chapdelaine, the only guitarist to win the National Finger Style Competition and the Guitar Foundation of America’s International Guitar Competition, will hold a free Master Class at 4 p.m. Friday,

Event Details

Chapdelaine, the only guitarist to win the National Finger Style Competition and the Guitar Foundation of America’s International Guitar Competition, will hold a free Master Class at 4 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15, in Ashmore Fine Arts Center, Room 857. Guitar Competition Competitors are encouraged to attend.

For more information on this event, call Joe Stallings, Pensacola State music and theater professor, at 850-484-1805

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